Maybe an easy question...

[CompiledMonkey]

I've got an application I'm running in the system tray when minimized. When a user hovers over the icon in the system tray I'd like to display some data from a file. In the background, every 30 mins, I'll be hitting a web service to get the latest weather data and writing a file with that data. So the data I'll be pulling from is that file.

Does anyone know how to bring up a little "balloon" looking item on the desktop with the information from that file? Thanks in advance.

 

[mpappert]

Innovasys makes a product called Popup Alert .. not exactly a balloon, it looks exactly like MSN Messenger's popups ...

Check it out here:
http://www.innovasys.co.uk/products/popupalert.asp

Hope this helps!
M.

 

[divil]

Here's a newsgroup posting by some people trying to get the same functionality. It involves calling an api and optionally subclassing to receive the message when the user clicks on the balloon.

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/9/45535.aspx

Here's another, which looks more complete:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/notifyiconex.asp